Microsoft was never good at keeping files and releases for themselves. It is normally only a matter of hours until the first scene release of a popular Microsoft alpha, beta or final version hits the net and gets spread around like crazy on p2p networks, the Usenet and ftp.
Several rumors concerning the service pack 3 for Windows XP made their round on the Internet as well with Microsoft being as secretive as possible about a release data and contents of the service pack. A pre beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released two days ago by the group Win Beta, in their nfo they state:
This is the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Build 3180. Think of it more as a pre-beta build of SP3 than an actuall beta build.
Full Build tag is: 5.1.2600.3180 (xpsp.070718-2058)
The size of the current Windows XP service pack 3 is around 340 Megabytes. I did not download the service pack 3 which means that I can’t tell you anything about the contents.
This means that we finally got proof that a new service pack for Windows XP is still in the making.
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hmmm, this is kinda exciting… and surprising, i guess microsoft realized how incompetent vista is and made one final fix for xp…
any word on what it will contain?
I am eagerly waiting for win xp sp3….!!! I am bored of xp sp2, vista looks great but it sucks big time…. I hope Microsoft would like to put few goodies of vista in xp sp3. Like the address bar, start menu, cursor, sounds etc….
Lets hope for the best……
need to upgrade windows xp